sinkhole

Example Sentences

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Homes have been evacuated after a sinkhole believed to be from an old mine opened up and swallowed a road sweeper.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

The driver of the road sweeper, whose vehicle fell down the sinkhole, was unharmed.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

Bundy and the mayor led a driving tour of the shattered coastline, stopping at one property where the destruction of a home revealed a sea wall below with a pre-existing sinkhole.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

He concluded that most likely the sinkhole was the result of an “induced collapse.”

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2025

There’s probably a religious motif, though in the foreground something more immediate: money, the release of others jailed in some sinkhole for doing more or less the same thing these men are doing.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood